One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race. It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records…
Last week in New Hampshire, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got ambushed with a question on, of all things, the Civil War. Here we go again. When asked what caused the Civil War, Haley explained: I think the cause…
Claudine Gay announced Tuesday that she is resigning from her position as president of Harvard University. The decision, she said, was “difficult beyond words.” Public resistance to Gay had escalated across the nation in recent months as she repeatedly displayed…
I would rather not have another national conversation about race in America. But if we must, can we at least not have the same conversation about race in America? Since the Supreme Court told Harvard that it can no longer…
In 2022, the country’s two preeminent kidney associations, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrologists (ASN), made changes to the definition of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that will likely revoke diagnoses in an estimated 5.51 million…
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu remains unapologetic for her decision to host a holiday party on Wednesday at which only “electeds of color” were welcome. “I am honored to be a part of this group,” she told the media outside Parkman…
Will the far-left target Hispanics next? If that sounds far-fetched, then you have not been paying attention to the far-left. Now targeting American Jews for supporting Israel’s right to self-defense and Israeli hostages’ right to freedom, how will far-left extremists…
The winds of World War III are blowing, not at a gale, but more than a breeze. Like a long-forgotten and unmissed uncle, anti-Semitism is back in town and threatens to stick around for a while. Washington, D.C., is simultaneously…
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) has announced that, henceforth, it will rename all birds in the Americas currently bearing the names of people. The purpose, it claims, is to eliminate names “deemed offensive and exclusionary.” Say goodbye to Anna’s hummingbird…
A prophet is without honor in his hometown. A classic case is found in the continued refusal of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to restore the name of Fredric March to a university theatre. Fredric March was one of the greatest…